Sentences with phrase «state assembly last»

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who represents Sunset Park and Red Hook, introduced a bill in the state Assembly last week that would ban pedestrians from using electronic devices while crossing intersections in an effort to drive down injuries.

California's law is similar to what was passed by the state Assembly last week, except it covers only six weeks.

One percent of the county's sales tax has been denied since the extension bill did not make it to the floor of the State Assembly last summer.

A bill was introduced in the state Assembly last year to enable tenants paying preferential rents to benefit from the program, but it didn't go anywhere in the Democratic - controlled chamber.

The state Assembly last month unanimously approved the bill to end sales taxes on feminine hygiene products, which can add.88 cents to an $ 11 pack of 50 tampons.

Only a small percentage of registered voters are expected for the race, which would fill the seat once held by Inez Dickens, who was elected to the state Assembly last fall.

Through these billboards, Sullivan also wants to implore the state Senate to pass the Child Victims Act, which already passed the state Assembly last year.

The state Assembly last year adopted a sanctuary state measure to prevent state and local law enforcement officers from making arrests based on immigration status and from enforcing federal immigration laws.

Not exact matches

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

Last year the Washington State Legislature approved a massive $ 8.7 billion subsidy package — the largest in U.S. history — to win a Boeing assembly plant for the extended - range version of its 777 aircraft.

As set forth above, as opposed to the stringent regulations in other states such as New York, and the bill proposed in the Assembly last year, which appear to deter companies from spending the time and money to pursue cutting - edge ideas, the Act appropriately balances the need for consumer protection with the desire to allow businesses to innovate.

The two Senators» appearance at the National Assembly took the staff and visitors by surprise understanding that their sack was announced last weekend following the Supreme Court judgment owing to supremacy battle between the contending factions of the PDP in Anambra State.

David Fried — who was endorsed last month by Clinton in his bid for Rockland County executive — said he will give to charity $ 10,000 that political fixer, government informant and admitted felon Moses «Mark» Stern contributed to Fried's failed 2006 run for New York State Assembly.

However, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly described the allegation as untrue and irresponsible, saying that they only went for an induction which was supposed to hold last year, insisting that no plot to impeach the deputy governor was discussed.

Kellner lost his Democratic primary for city council last year and did not run for re-election to the state Assembly this year.

At the 7:30 - minute mark Paladino talks about putting Silver «in one of those Roman cages, OK, so that people can see the guy who has tormented New York State for the last 15 years while he's been the majority leader of the, the speaker of the Assembly.

Former Town of Greece Democratic Leader Dave Garretson replaced State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle as county chairman last year, and has never seemed to be in a rush to find a county executive candidate.

The state Conservative Party this week released ratings of the 213 members of the Assembly and Senate, finding the overall rating for the Republican - controlled Senate have fallen over the last year.

State Sen. Chris Jacobs, a Buffalo Republican, is not pleased with the Assembly ride - hailing legislation that was introduced at the end of last week, saying he believes the intent of the measure is kill the ride - hailing effort in upstate altogether.

«I agree this has been unseemly over the last week or so,» said State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

With Democrats performing well in special elections last week and predicting an anti-Trump blue wave in New York in November, Republicans are seeing a silver lining from a state Assembly special election in Buffalo last Tuesday.

Say what you will about the bag fee legislation approved by the City Council last month, It's probably fair to say no one expected the Democrat dominated New York State Assembly to even consider overturning the will of the also overwhelming Democratic New York City Council.

A version of the Senate's anti-sanctuary city bill has already been approved last year, with votes from moderate mainline Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer, Kevin Parker and Tim Kennedy (Democrats from upstate and suburban districts in the Assembly opposed the sanctuary state bill).

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Reactions were mixed after two state Assembly districts in eastern Queens were drastically changed last Thursday by a state panel in charge of redrawing political boundaries.

Last year, the state's liquor stores donated en masse to the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee, the Republication Senate Campaign Committee and a number of individual legislators.

Last week, former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Lower Manhattan) escaped justice when a federal appeals panel overturned his conviction for accepting bribes and money - laundering.

The measure to name the span the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge passed the State Senate late Wednesday on the last day of the legislative session, but it failed to pass the Assembly.

The last of this dying breed was John Ravitz, who represented the Upper East Side in the Assembly between 1991 and 2002, when he lost a special election for state senate and walked away from public office.

Ethel Chen, a longtime Flushing Democrat and retired librarian, kicked off her campaign last week for the Flushing state Assembly seat currently represented by Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing).

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver deserves a thumbs up following last week's news that the deal he brokered with 11 Battery Park City condominiums and the Battery Park City Authority to reduce ground rents by a whopping 35 percent between 2012 and 2042 had been approved.

New York state Assembly members are interviewing candidates Tuesday for interim attorney general, following the resignation of Eric Schneiderman last week amid sexual abuse allegations.

Last week, the New York State Assembly Higher Education committee held a public hearing to review the performance of the new Excelsior Scholarship program.

A letter was sent to both the Mayor and the Governor last week, signed by elected officials including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senator Daniel Squadron and Borough President Scott Stringer in addition to others, that demanded Menin be appointed to the panel.

Other recent major corruption convictions — of former State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — were overturned last year.

Bills to ensure school districts do not lose money have been introduced in the state Senate and Assembly, but they did not get out of committees last year.

During a CapTon interview in his Capitol office yesterday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declined to immediately sign off on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's so - called «Charlotteville provisions» that would change the state's hate crimes law in response to the violence in Virginia last weekend.

A version of the Child Victims Act has passed several times over the past decade in the New York State Assembly including last year.

The group has hired Camille Brandon, a state Assembly candidate last year for disgraced former Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak's seat and considered a fixture in western New York politics, for its Buffalo office.

Newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie this week vowed to enact a «zero - tolerance» policy for sexual harassment cases, which in the last several years engulfed three state lawmakers no longer in the Assembly.

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo had agreed last year to an amendment, but the Democratic - led Assembly balked at a vote on the measure, which came with a broader agreement on the state budget.

Barry was instrumental in the successful prosecution last year of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Last month State Sen. Tony Avella made headlines once again by breaking with his colleagues when he called for Speaker Silver to step down in the face of an apparent cover up of sexual harassment charges involving Assembly Member Vito Lopez.

Last year, the Democrat - led State Assembly passed the Child Victims Act, but it stalled in the Republican - led Senate when Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Smithtown) decided not to bring the bill to a vote.

Francisco Moya, a member of the NY State Assembly put it succinctly in a letter to Crain's New York last spring:

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as state Senate Leader John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

On Tuesday, the fate of Sheldon Silver falls to a dozen jurors who have spent the last three weeks listening to competing versions of how the former Assembly speaker wielded power for the last decade: with secretive calculations to enrich himself or with the same quirks, favor - trading and inherent conflicts that is irrevocably baked into the state government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.

The Republican primary for a state Assembly seat on Staten Island's South Shore last year was especially nasty.